top 20 hacker news stories for 2014-11-08

Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court to Rule APIs Can’t Be Copyrighted

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/computer-scientists-ask-supreme-court-rule-apis-cant-be-copyrighted

12 years ago

517 upvotes – 164 comments

Urbit: a personal cloud computer

http://doc.urbit.org/

12 years ago

460 upvotes – 265 comments

Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was Based on Fact

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/almost-everything-in-dr-strangelove-was-true

12 years ago

375 upvotes – 160 comments

Bat bomb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat_bomb

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 40 comments

Ask HN: Founders whose startups have failed, where did life take you afterwards?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8578514

12 years ago

235 upvotes – 172 comments

Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing

http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.1607

12 years ago

215 upvotes – 138 comments

The 5K Retina iMac’s screen runs at 60Hz at 5K resolution

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/yes-the-5k-retina-imacs-screen-runs-at-60hz-at-5k-resolution/

12 years ago

193 upvotes – 54 comments

OpenBazaar is a decentralized Dark Net market that's 'untouchable' by police

http://www.dailydot.com/politics/openbazaar-is-next-after-silk-road-2-falls/

12 years ago

187 upvotes – 107 comments

Gow – The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

12 years ago

★ 6.6k NSIS
175 upvotes – 113 comments

Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide

http://www.tonymacx86.com/446-building-customac-buyer-s-guide-october-2014.html

12 years ago

157 upvotes – 97 comments

Why I find IEEE 754 frustrating

http://h14s.p5r.org/2014/11/why-i-find-ieee-754-frustrating.html

12 years ago

140 upvotes – 58 comments

The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss and Opened the Berlin Wall

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/11/06/361785478/the-man-who-disobeyed-his-boss-and-opened-the-berlin-wall

12 years ago

120 upvotes – 42 comments

Google Blacklist – Words That Google Instant Doesn't Like (2010)

http://www.2600.com/googleblacklist/

12 years ago

110 upvotes – 36 comments

CC500: a tiny self-hosting C compiler

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/edmund.grimley-evans/cc500/

12 years ago

102 upvotes – 22 comments

Interplanetary Transport Network

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Network

12 years ago

98 upvotes – 18 comments

Our Own Private Germany

https://medium.com/matter/our-own-private-germany-6ce44ac93a7b

12 years ago

94 upvotes – 14 comments

Big things to expect from Emacs 25

http://endlessparentheses.com/big-things-to-expect-from-emacs-25.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 76 comments

The Unbelievable Skepticism of the Amazing Randi

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/09/magazine/the-unbelievable-skepticism-of-the-amazing-randi.html

12 years ago

87 upvotes – 45 comments

Texas Man Arrested for $4.5M Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jordanmaglich/2014/11/06/texas-man-arrested-for-4-5-million-bitcoin-ponzi-scheme/

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 36 comments

ARM64 Open Laptop Concept

http://wiki.vero-apparatus.com/ARM64OpenLaptopConcept

12 years ago

84 upvotes – 46 comments
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